SQL Server 2025 preview debuts with Ubuntu 24.04 support and TLS 1.3 encryption for stronger security and Linux flexibility.

After its debut six months ago, Microsoft has released the latest update for the public preview of SQL Server 2017 on Linux, with some early adopters already using it within production containers.

It’s pretty much PowerShell and command-line interfaces or nothing. ?Since Microsoft’s implementation of Windows-based Docker containers is rather quirky, here are a couple other notes to be aware of: ...